Adyar Park/Tholkappiya Poonga: Chennai’s Nature Retreat!

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Adyar Park/Tholkappiya Poonga is an excellent escapade from the concrete jungle to a natural jungle, right within Chennai city. Main gate is on Greenways road, nearer to Adyar/Elphinstone bridge.  Visitors need to assemble at 2:30 P.M on Tuesdays or Thursdays and a batch of 20 people will be taken on a guided tour. You need to pre-book their tickets from the park website after checking availability. Entry ticket: Rs. 20/-, Car parking: Rs. 20/-, Camera: Rs. 50/-. 

This park has been constructed over 50-acres after clearing a waste dump that used to exist here, as per high court order. They are expanding the park to another 300-acres, shortly. It seems a team from Auroville near Pondy was the consultant for this project and they also executed it. Now the Govt. is trying to clean up the major rivers within Chennai – Adyar river and Cooum river — let’s hope this will be completed soon and people will maintain it properly in the future. The city needs water bodies and greenery badly!

What you can find at Adyar/Tholkappiya Poonga: Lot of plants, trees, flowers, birds, butterflies, insects, reptiles, statues, artwork, huts, etc. There is a pathway to walk around the park and I loved visiting this calm and serene place. I am sure you will too. Here are some photos I took during a recent Butterfly walk in Adyar Poonga/Tholkappiya park. (Click the link to see the butterflies.)

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Adyar Park/Tholkappiya Poonga Website: Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust.

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Photos: By Destination8infinity (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

9 thoughts on “Adyar Park/Tholkappiya Poonga: Chennai’s Nature Retreat!

  1. Jeevan

    Wow! Absolutely wonderful recreation has done there… the place looks quite natural and welcomes to explore. Wish I visit this park and hope the environment was wheelchair friendly.

    Beautiful photos Rajesh

    1. Rajesh K

      A perfect blend of natural and man-made objects in a backdrop of beautiful scenery.

      Destination Infinity

  2. sm

    Beautiful park.

    1. Rajesh K

      Thanks 🙂

      Destination Infinity

  3. Srishyamili V.P
    Srishyamili V.P says:

    I am very fond of the pictures that i saw in your website want to visit the park verysoon.

    1. Rajesh K

      Please visit and share pics in your facebook so that more people can come to know about it.

      Destination Infinity

  4. Manogna

    You keep coming up with new spots to visit in Chennai itself!
    I now know why people say , first visit the whole of India and then talk about going abroad! Sounds true. So many places worth visiting.
    🙂

    1. Rajesh K

      We can also do both simultaneously 🙂

      Destination Infinity

  5. Nish

    Wow! It looks really pretty. Where in Adyar is it? Definitely must visit the next time I come there.

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